glossary
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Re-use
use of construction components taken from an older building.
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Recumbent figure
reclining statue representing the deceased, decorating a tomb.
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Redoubt
small self-contained fieldwork, a refuge for soldiers outside the main defenses.
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Refectory
communal dining hall; A dining room in a monastery.
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Refectory
the dining hall of a monastery.
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Relieving arch
A supportive arch constructed within a wall to absorb weight upon a passageway or portal below.
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Renaissance-style
style of the era following that of the gothic period (16th century).
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Rib vault
a framework of diagonal arched ribs carrying the cells which cover in the spaces between them.
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Ring
row of quoins forming an arch.
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Roman
first applied by critics in the early nineteenth century to describe the architecture of the later eleventh and the twelfth centuries, because certain architectural elements, principally the round arch, resembled those of ancient Roman architecture.
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Rotunda
a building or room of circular plan, usually domed.
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Rough-hewn
formed roughly by trimming with straight cuts to give the required shape .
